Through research, Virginia Ramirez and other citizens discovered that city officials took money that was supposed to be spent in Virginia's neighborhood and spent it instead on a street in an affluent neighborhood. This understanding of an unjust decision illustrates which personal quality of citizen participation and empowerment?
a. critical awareness
b. sense of collective efficacy
c. participatory skills
d. relational connections
a
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Regarding the technology used to study the brain, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Both PET scans and functional MRIs provide images of activity throughout the brain. b. Experimentally, fMRI images have been used to tell if a person is lying. c. PET and fMRI brain scans show that most people use only 10 percent of their brain capacity. d. PET scan studies suggest that the brains of people who perform well on a difficult reasoning test consume less energy than those of poor performers.
What can we conclude from the observation that retrieving an item from short-term memory takes longer as items are added to STM?
a) STM processing is not efficient. b) The capacity of STM is unlimited. c) We apparently scan every item in STM before reporting. d) The items added to STM must have been more difficult than the previous items.
Which term does NOT belong with the rest?
A. Pragmatics of intelligence B. Mechanics of intelligence C. Psychological force impact on intelligence D. Sociocultural force impact on intelligence
Which of the following is a cognitive psychologist most likely to study?
A. How brain damage affects memory B. How quickly people can learn a sequence of numbers and respond to them C. How people respond to social pressure D. The evolutionary purpose of problem-solving